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Plan in Uncertainty
One of my clients has discovered that great leaders have multiple personalities. They manage budgets and smooth feathers. They tell today’s stories and feed tomorrow’s visions. They plan and execute; reinforce and correct; encourage and challenge; create stability and manage change; hire and fire; and in their spare time, they do everything in between.
Lead in Complexity
The statistics are shocking. Even good employees are dissatisfied and disengaged. Organizations of all sizes and sectors recognize the problem. The real problem, though, is that they don’t know what to do about it. Surveys, rewards and recognition programs, gap analysis, and strategic plans uncover the deep discontent, but in most cases they do little to shift the pattern. What will work?
June 2, 2022
You deal with complexity and uncertainty that are inherent in today’s landscape. You live and work in an interdependent world where cause-effect relationships are unclear. You can’t plan effectively for the future. Powerful forces beyond your understanding shape your day-to-day existence. Traditional ways of being, knowing, and doing emerged to cope in simpler times, but they are not so useful today. You need capacity to thrive in such an unpredictable world. HSD offers a powerful path to build Adaptive Capacity you need to thrive in the world of today and tomorrow. Adaptive Capacity is the ability and willingness to engage with the world and stay resilient in the face of persistent change.
Watch this month’s LVW to learn about the theory and practice of Adaptive Capacity. Leave with skills and tools to build your Adaptive Capacity to thrive in the future, whatever it brings.
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August 3, 2017
When the world changes as quickly as it does today, what you knew for certain yesterday may or may not be true today. Yesterday’s answers are stale and inaccurate by the time the email is opened today. The best you can do when life is so uncertain is to stand in inquiry, using questions to learn more, to make meaning, to support your action, and even to question your own answers. In HSD we use Adaptive Action and Pattern Logic to stand in inquiry as we make sense of the world and take our next wise actions.
Collaborate to Create Community
For the past week, I've been visiting friends, colleagues, and potential partners in Delhi. This has proven to be an intense experience of one of the HSD simple rules "teach and learn in every interaction." I leave with a profound sense of respect for people who see opportunity emerging from challenge, consensus emerging from diversity, and actual change emerging from the potential of hope and passion.
It is six o’clock in the morning, and your teenage son is not home yet. Your doctor calls you in after a routine exam. There is a natural disaster near the home of friends or relatives on the other side of town, the nation, or the globe. It is your turn to make a presentation to the executive committee. New legislation or regulations for your industry are in the making. Even as I write these sentences, I am aware of tension in my shoulders and butterflies in my stomach. How do you feel as you read them?
Lead in Complexity
December 1, 2016
What is the pattern you want to create in your life? Who will you be to create this pattern? What is important to you that informs the pattern? How will you connect with others to make the pattern come to life? These key questions will set you on your own radical inquiry. You will discover your power to shape patterns for yourself and all your communities. This simple, creative process is easy to learn and simple to share with others. Come and harvest the power in your emerging patterns of possibility.
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